Only through time, time is conquered. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets We like to play spiritual games on New Year’s Eve. We stay home, have a quiet intimate evening with our family or a few friends, drink a little Martinelli’s sparkling apple cider at midnight (truly living on the edge!), and we play spiritual games. Each […]
What is the purpose of the self-touch movements we do at the beginning of Kai Chi Do (during Thich Nhat Hanh’s End of Suffering)? Charles calls these “The Depths”. I contacted Phyllis Singer, a gifted healer who uses Touch of Chi, to ask her about the value and meaning of these particular movements and their […]
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions” – Rainer Maria Rilke How can you find […]
“I talk to my inner lover, and I say, why such rush? We sense that there is some sort of spirit that loves birds and animals and the ants– perhaps the same one who gave a radiance to you in your mother’s womb. Is it logical you would be walking around entirely orphaned now? The […]
My barn having burned to the ground, I can now see the moon. – Mizuta Masahide, 1688 * Several years ago, I suffered through a painful 9 month course of chemotherapy. The pain was so severe, and so relentless, that I didn’t know how I would get through it, and I seriously thought about quitting […]